Gold Coast Police 'caught out' by bikies.

30 September 2013 , 6:34 PM by nicole gundi

"Unfortunately we were caught out".

Steven Hollands, the Acting Assistant Commissioner for the Gold Coast, says the bikie brawl that happened outside a Broadbeach restaurant, followed by another fight at the Southport Police Station on Friday night wasn't on their radar.

"Unfortunately we weren't warned about that, we didn't have any intelligence on it and we did the best we could on the night".

"I arrived shortly after it happened and it certainly was a tense situation".

Twenty people have now been charged and police are currently looking at upgrading some of the charges.

Police patrols will be ramped up until the end of the week, with forty more officers on the Gold Coast tonight and another forty to be here by Wednesday.

"We're very much looking at high visibility patrolling particularly around the Broadbeach, Surfers Paradise area and what we call high impact saturation policing".

"This operation is directed at persons who are members of criminal gangs. We certainly wont be upsetting the general public".

The Police Minister, Jack Dempsey met with Gold Coast Police to talk about how they'll be cracking down on violent crime and introducing what could be the toughest anti-gang laws in the world.